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Florida A&M University student and band member Robert Champion, 26, died November 19.
July 6th, 2012
12:44 PM ET
Document: Official sought band's suspension before FAMU hazing death
A document released by Florida A&M University on Friday reveals the campus police chief recommended the suspension of the school's marching band three days before the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion.
Thirteen people have been charged in connection with the death of Champion, 26, who was badly beaten during last year's incident on a band bus after a football game in Orlando.
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He would have killed himself after graduating and realizing companies don't hire many drummers.
My highschool band director was an alumnus of FAMU and the kind of culture that resulted in this person's death is the same reason I quit marching band. I endured only one day of shouting and "death marching" my legs until they bled and I quit. There's not need to bleed for music.
Clean it up, FAMU.
Good for you... saved by personal awareness.
Prosecute these 13 murderers.
Some people need to grow up. Maybe jail will help them.
One week after moving into his first apartment, Ed called his mother to complain about his neighbors: "One woman cries all day, another lies in bed moaning, and then there's this guy that keeps banging his head against the wall."
"You better keep away from them," she said.
"I do. I stay inside all day playing my tuba."
Bet Ed's mother was glad to see him go...lol.
I keep envisionine Neiedermyer in his robe with his ghastly grin...
"Thank you sir, may I please have another?"
They should have done away with this practice long ago!
Across the board this practice has to be banned.
Truth is, I'm not sure we can really expect a lot from these folks involved in this incident or from this school either! Banning the hazing and prosecuting is not the solution really, but it will make peopkle feel like they're doing the right thing.
Banning the hazing and prosecuting those who are involved is a start...to do nothing is tacit approval.
Hazing should be a reason for expulsion from any college campus for those involved, and possibly an arrest warrant should be issued to the offenders. College students want to be treated as adults but act as if they are still in elementary school. They need to grow up. Stop the BS wannabe playas!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's sorry a grown man would let someone whip him like that just to be part of a band sound like a street gang beat in
Prison sounds like a new college career for the lot of them.
FAMU's marching band is to that school, the same thing as a nationality ranked football team is to other colleges. So the band was more or less exempt from any sodt of moral codes as long as it was still recognized as one of the better marching bands in the nation! Granted, they were a top notched group. To bad the inmates took over the asylum.
Yeah, too bad they thought they were football players instead of band members...
Sad incident i hope the ones responsible are held accountable
Remedy is to put these kids, I mean thugs, in jail!